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Guthrie's Heir?: Tom Waits' Mule Variations

Gene Santoro, The Nation, 6 May 1999

TOM WAITS IS an imaginary hobo. He cruises the oddball corners of American pop culture, collecting the deft and moving and loopy short takes he sees and imagines there.

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